Strength in Numbers

I had Proximal Row Carpectomy surgery on my left hand in October due to a bone disease called Kienbock's Disease. Three bones were taken out because my lunate bone, the bone responsible for most of the movement in the wrist, fragmented and started chewing away at my cartilage and radius bone. It was a challenging recovery.  I couldn't do anything independently for six weeks and I lost a lot of my stamina.  I have been trying to get back into my regular workouts and my dance classes, but I still feel pain.  I do about ten minutes on the treadmill and a few arm machines with a low amount of weight. It will take up to a year to heal.  

I found a great group of people on social media who are going through the same thing I am and it made recovery so much easier for me. It also allows me to offer some advice and encouragement to people who are about to have a PRC or any other type of surgery.  According to research that I have done, there are only about 200,000 cases of KD in the United States.  It is scary to have something that is not well known and doesn't have much information available, but I am glad that I have a community of people who will help each other through the bad days.